Hello Tom.
I just wasted some time puzzling over strange results from pgbench. I eventually realized that I'd been testing against the wrong server, because rather than "-p 65432" I'd typed "-P 65432", thereby invoking the recently added --progress option. pgbench has no way to know that that isn't what I meant; the fact that both switches take integer arguments doesn't help.
ISTM that this is an unfortunate but unlikely mistake, as "-p" is used in all postgresql commands to signify the port number (psql, pg_dump, pg_basebackup, createdb, ...).
To fix this, I propose removing the -P short form and only allowing the long --progress form.
I do not think that such a "fix" is really needed. This logic would lead to remove many short options from many commands in postgresql and elsewhere : -t/-T in pgbench, -s/-S in psql, and so on, -l/-L -r/-R -s/-S in ls...
Moreover, I use -P more often than -p:-) -- Fabien. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
